Donatien de Rochambeau

Donatien-Marie-Joseph de Vimeur, Vicomte de Rochambeau (7 April 1755-20 October 1813) was a divisional general of the French First Republic and First French Empire during the French Revolutionary Wars, Haitian Revolution, and Napoleonic Wars.

Biography
Donatien-Marie-Joseph de Vimeur was born in Paris, Kingdom of France on 7 April 1755, the son of Vicomte Jean-Baptiste de Rochambeau. From 1781 to 1782, he served as aide-de-camp to his father in Virginia during the American Revolutionary War, and he fought in the Caribbean and in the Italian Campaign during the French Revolutionary Wars. In 1802, Napoleon Bonaparte gave him command of an expeditionary force that was sent to crush Toussaint L'ouverture's rebellious Haitian slaves after the death of Charles Leclerc, and his brutal tactics united both the black ex-slaves and the biracial gens de couleur against the French. In November 1803, he surrendered to Haitian general Jean-Jacques Dessalines, and Haiti became an independent country. He was sent to the United Kingdom, where he remained a prisoner until his 1811 exchange. Rochambeau returned to the army, and he was mortally wounded at the Battle of Leipzig on 17 October 1813, dying three days later in Dresden.